Malik Ishaq

Malik Ishaq (1959-29 July 2015) was the leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

Biography
Malik Ishaq was born in 1959 in Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan to a family of Sunni Muslim Punjabis. In 1996, along with Riaz Basra and Akram Lahori, he founded Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a militant organization that carried out several anti-Shia attacks in Pakistan. From 2004 onwards LeJ fought in the Waziristan War against the government, having fought in the Kashmir Conflict. In 2011 he was arrested for killing hundreds of Shias, but in 2014 he was released, showing how anti-Shia leaders were often released with impunity.

In 2015 he was arrested again, and several LeJ fighters tried to free him from his prison convoy in Punjab. However, Malik Ishaq, his two sons, and 10 other LeJ members were killed by the Pakistani Army, and his death was a blow to the Sunni insurgents in the Waziristan and FATA regions of Pakistan.